Tumkur: Three persons, including a couple, were killed on the spot in the collision between a lorry and a tanker on Tumukuru-Shira national highway on Tuesday.

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The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Monday projected its president Mayawati as the prime ministerial candidate for next year’s general election, and said that Congress president Rahul Gandhi could not aspire to the post due to “his mother’s foreign origin”.

Veteran actress Rita Bhaduri, who worked extensively in films and television shows, including the ongoing "Nimki Mukhiya", died here on Tuesday, said a source from the hospital where she was admitted for over a week.

The US is currently facing a serious shortage of airline pilots, particularly at the regional airline levels, according to a report.

The Federal Aviation Administration said in the report on Monday that there were about 827,000 pilots in America in 1987. Over the past three decades, that number decreased by 30 per cent, reports CNN.

After being rapped by the Supreme Court over the condition of the Taj Mahal, the government on Monday said that it will take action on "war footing" to deal with air and water pollution in and around the world-famous 17th-century Mughal monument.

BJP MLA Govinda Karajola’s son Arun has allegedly abused and insulted a police constable for questioning the traffic rules violation, at Mudhol on Monday.

Local police arrested one person on charges of spreading communal enmity through WhatsApp groups against a college in the city. The accused is identified as Ashish of Asaigoli in Konaje in the city.